Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo (Feb 2015)

IDENTIFICATION OF Pseudomonas spp. AS AMOEBA-RESISTANT MICROORGANISMS IN ISOLATES OF Acanthamoeba

  • Vinicius José Maschio,
  • Gertrudes Corção,
  • Marilise Brittes Rott

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46652015000100012
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 57, no. 1
pp. 81 – 83

Abstract

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Acanthamoeba is a “Trojan horse” of the microbial world. The aim of this study was to identify the presence of Pseudomonas as an amoeba-resistant microorganism in 12 isolates of Acanthamoeba. All isolates showed the genus Pseudomonas spp. as amoeba-resistant microorganisms. Thus, one can see that the Acanthamoeba isolates studied are hosts of Pseudomonas.

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